Comments on: By Way of Introduction http://kwonbook.com/2006/04/29/by-way-of-introduction/ A Story of Economic Discovery Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:35:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Tom Moran http://kwonbook.com/2006/04/29/by-way-of-introduction/#comment-8 Tom Moran Sat, 13 May 2006 06:37:48 +0000 http://kwonbook.com/2006/04/29/by-way-of-introduction/#comment-8 Just finished the book. Very interesting and illuminating. You point out the importance of mathematical language, while, of course, writing a "literary" book. As a former math major I'd appreciate a pointer to a description in/of the math involved.     TM   I'm not aware of a gloss on the nonconvex analysis of romer's thesis, which is one reason I didn't attempt anything myself in the book.  Martin Weitzman has a book just out called <em>Income, Wealth and the Maximum Principle</em> in which he develops a "standard" version of dynamic optimization techniques for economic problems, using mainly calculus at the level of an advanced undergraduate undergraduate.  But the background of convex analysisis from which the departure too place probably is not what your interested in.  I'll call around and see if I can elicit a proper answer.            DW Just finished the book. Very interesting and illuminating. You point out the importance of mathematical language, while, of course, writing a “literary” book. As a former math major I’d appreciate a pointer to a description in/of the math involved.     TM

 
I’m not aware of a gloss on the nonconvex analysis of romer’s thesis, which is one reason I didn’t attempt anything myself in the book.  Martin Weitzman has a book just out called Income, Wealth and the Maximum Principle in which he develops a “standard” version of dynamic optimization techniques for economic problems, using mainly calculus at the level of an advanced undergraduate undergraduate.  But the background of convex analysisis from which the departure too place probably is not what your interested in.  I’ll call around and see if I can elicit a proper answer.            DW

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